By one barometer the amount of counterfeit goods seized the group has had great success in recent years.
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They each face up to 10 years in prison if convicted of trafficking in counterfeit goods.
This year the government used the occasion to remind the Vietnamese that counterfeit goods are illegal.
Over the past 12 months Norfolk Trading Standards has seized counterfeit goods worth tens of thousands of pounds.
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Officials are not uniformly zealous in enforcing labour standards and confiscating counterfeit goods.
But more importantly, the online exchanges like so many online forums filled with counterfeit goods and became unusable.
The theft of ideas and the sale of counterfeit goods threaten economic opportunities and financial stability, suppress innovation and destroy jobs.
The Interpol secretary general said some militant groups dealt directly in counterfeit goods, such as paramilitaries trading cigarettes in Northern Ireland.
Now you can add passenger cars to the list of counterfeit goods.
Ali pleaded guilty to being concerned in the distribution of counterfeit goods.
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The peddling of counterfeit goods is a crime, and his plea today makes clear that it is a crime we will prosecute.
Yet even with the threat of fines, people still download black market software, and the sale of counterfeit goods is a billion dollar industry.
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E-commerce marketplace Taobao has worked with rights holders to ban some counterfeit goods from sale and has promised to further simplify its complaint procedures.
If it cathches one with counterfeit goods it will mete out a punishment, including denial of the drug giant's products--11% of all prescription drugs sold.
Shanghai police have busted 150 gangs involved in 356 cases of intellectual copyright infringement and selling counterfeit goods since Oct 19, 2010, the paper reported.
Forget the commonly held belief that the Chinese love counterfeit goods.
Take Vietnam's customs law, passed in December 2001, which allows customs offices to hold suspected counterfeit goods at the border, and thus stop them being exported.
The uses for the technology range from the frivolous, such as placing hidden messages on clothing to the more serious problems of counterfeit goods, in particular pirated movies.
It could be related to ill-gotten Google advertising gains from promoting online piracy of movies, facilitating commerce in counterfeit goods like pharmaceuticals, or selling keywords that are trademarked to competitors.
Sonnier also said the decision highlights the need to make trademark counterfeiting a crime in Canada and to grant Customs officers in Canada ex-officio authority to seize counterfeit goods at the border.
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China churned out 70% of all counterfeit goods.
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When I was in Beijing two years ago, I toured an entire multi-floor mall very publically devoted to counterfeit goods, from golf clubs to watches to designer outdoor clothing purportedly from the likes of North Face and Patagonia.
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The online pharmacy study is the latest update to MarkMonitor's quarterly Brandjacking Index, which tracks the abuse of corporate brand names in online scams designed to steal credit information, drive traffic to advertising sites or sell counterfeit goods.
Although ARA has certainly spent much of its time on high-profile cases referred by prosecutors, police and customs, it has also worked to tackle street-level criminals - from drug dealers and gang members to sellers of counterfeit goods and benefit cheats, in concert with local authorities.
This kind of demand, especially in a place where counterfeit luxury goods are easy to come by, has led to the assumption that prospects for parts of the Chinese consumer market remain strong despite rapidly-slowing growth in the overall economy.
Homes, offices and warehouses were hit, with police grabbing fake designer goods and counterfeit drugs as well as firearms and bullets.
Tre Milano has an active anti-counterfeiting program that includes buying goods to check if they are counterfeit and sending takedown notices to eBay and Amazon.
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The council said a forfeiture order was made for all the goods seized at her home, which included about 770 items of suspected counterfeit cosmetics and equipment.
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